Monday, December 17, 2012

The Electoral College is meeting — and the Board of Elections still hasn't finished counting

When the Electorial College Representatives Cast Their Ballot In Albany Today It Will Be Illegal Because the NYC Voter Count is Not Certified

NY's Soviet Style Election System

It Ok not to have a final vote before NY casts it Electoral College votes. It Ok that over a million New Yorkers either waited on line for hours or left the polls before voting on election day. This is because the NYC Board of Elections purpose is not to assure democracy to the city residences but to server as a gatekeeper for the city's incumbent elected officials and machine backed candidates. The media (except the Daily News), the city council with their fake hearings last month and all our elected officials are all in on preserving this corrupt of the city's election system. The BOE worked aound the clock this weekend and still will not finish in time for the Electoral College vote today at noon. They are counting every paper ballot they can to avoid the embarrisment of the election day count which has them down from the 2008 totals by 22.3% over a half of million votes less* Electoral College makes it official (CNN)

The BOE Serves Incumbents and the Political Machines

The News chides the city Board of Elections for dragging its feet in certifying the November 6th election results so New York’s votes for president can be cast in the Electoral CollegeIt’s been nearly six weeks since Election Day, and true to form, the
most incompetent Board of Elections in the nation — that would be New
York City’s — has managed to bungle a most important duty. That being to certify the Nov. 6 election results so New York’s votes for President can be cast in the Electoral College.The board, which has been counting and counting, still had nearly
100,000 ballots to go as of Friday. That means, as of yet, the panel
cannot provide official results for the presidential race.

Missing Outrage At the Board of ElectionsViolations of New Yorkers Right to Vote

With the Electoral College required by federal law to “meet and give
their votes” on Monday, the board was reduced to telling state election
officials that we all know President Obama won, so go ahead and declare
him the victor — without an accurate accounting of the final tally. Still, having failed to perform this key function, the gang that
couldn’t count straight did manage to complete one official act last
week. It okayed a raise from $89,000 to $115,000 for lawyer Raphael
Savino, who just happens to the brother of Bronx GOP boss Jay Savino.
Sheesh.*NY Electoral College to vote for pres in Albany(WSJ)* BOE History of Corruption and Incompetence BOE Employee CFB Deadbeat

Robert A. Hornak The Board of Elections Director of Machinesand Queens GOP’s executive director, Robert Hornak was fined by the New York City Campaign Finance Board for $5,528 for Failing to report and document in-kind contributions, Failing to respond to the Draft Audit Report, Failing to respond to the Initial Request for Documentation, Failing to file two disclosure statements and filing two late disclosure statements.

More Chumps Than Champs in 2012

LosersAssembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who was badly damaged by the revelation
that, without public notice, he agreed to pay $103,000 in state funds
to two women who had accused Brooklyn Assemblyman Vito Lopez of sexual
harassment.

Vito Lopez, of course, was another big loser. While he managed to win
re-election to the Assembly, the revelations forced him to give up his
position as Brooklyn Democratic leader, as well as his chairmanship of
the powerful Housing Committee.Senate leaders, Majority Leader Dean Skelos and Minority Leader John Sampson, are both big losers.

Guns Must Be Solved On the Federal Level, Mental Health Must Not be Cut On the State or Local Level

Gun Shops In the South Have More to Do With Shooting In NYC Than the Changing the State's Gun Laws

New York State Has Cut Mental Health Services
New York has one of the largest mental health budget, but
between 2011 and 2012, New York cut its by $95.2 million. *States-make-deep-cuts-in-mental-health-funding - Chicago Sun-TimesPresident John F. Kennedy’s Role in Community Mental Health Care 50 Years AgoCongress Never Provided the Funds For Kennedy'sProgram

A family affair for NY Dem$(NYP)Queens Democrats sure know how to keep it all in the family. State
Senate Democrats steered more than $1.5 million in campaign money this
year to the Parkside Group, the political consulting firm of Evan
Stavisky — son of state Sen. Toby Ann Stavisky (D-Queens).Records show that Parkside also conducted polling for the Democratic
Senate Campaign Committee. The firm scored a 2010 contract guaranteeing
itself 80 percent of all DSCC business.How Corrupt Parkside Get Away With It(True News)

The Boyland Crime Family

The flimflam family (NYP) Folks were puzzled Thursday when state and federal officials
raided the offices of a housing charity run by an upright upstate priest
just outside Albany.
William Boyland Sr. spent two decades in
the Assembly before bequeathing his seat to his son, William Jr., in
2003.Over the years, the Brooklyn duo sent $1.2 million in member items
(taxpayer-funded pork) to Albany’s Altamont Program. Wouldn’t
you know it, when Senior left office he got himself a job as a “housing
coordinator” at one of Altamont’s Brooklyn shelters — even as the
taxpayer money kept pouring in, an upstate newspaper reports.

The Diaz Family Senator's daughter pleads guilty to harassment The NYPD daughter of state Sen. Ruben Diaz -- sister of the Bronx
Borough President -- pled guilty today to harassment for keying her
ex-boyfriend’s car in August when he wanted to end the
relationship. Sgt. Damaris Diaz, 43, who has been with the..

Why Don't the Feds Go After Hevesi and Other Pols Pensions Who Have Done Time?Feds aim to seize mob cops' pension money(NYDN)Federal prosecutors are going after the disability pensions that
disgraced NYPD Detectives Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa have been
collecting while rotting in jail for murder

Reading, ’Riting and Race(NYP Ed)The case involves a 16-year-old lawsuit, a handful of unqualified
teachers who tried to cast their own failures as a civil-rights
violation.Would-be
teachers in New York must pass a state exam called the Liberal Arts and
Sciences Test, or LAST, to demonstrate a basic grasp of English, math,
history and science.* NYC students face tougher state exams in april(NYDN) * Kids in grades 3 to 8 will face much tougher questions on state math and English exams in April and May — and education officials expect scores to nose-dive. * Education Commissioner King sent an e-mail
to superintendents Friday advising school leaders to be alert for
students or staff who might be struggling in the aftermath of the
national tragedy. * Schools in New York City were encouraged to review safety measures, which include posting security officers in lobbies and requiring identification from all visitors.

NYU’s Langone Medical Center will
receive a $114 million grant from the federal government that will help
the hospital reopen and restore full service by January after it was
damaged by Sandy

Cuomo has roughly 30 bills on his desk
from the legislature that he must sign or veto by today, including one
bill that would reinstate the state-funded health insurance for retired
employees of the defunct New York City OTB, the Times-Union reports:

Extell's Chief Thinking Tall for Midtown(WSJ)Gary Barnett, one of New York's leading developers, is
planning a new Midtown skyscraper that could rise 300 feet higher than
the Empire State Building, and he's has hired the architect who designed
the world's tallest tower.

Law and OrderInnocent man free after year(NYP) In another black eye for the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office, a
judge dismissed all charges against a 65-year-old man who had spent more
than a year in jail.

Bravest’s new squeeze: strangle-case transgal(NYP)Now they’ve both been acquitted of throttling transsexuals. Kinky FDNY hunk Taylor Murphy, who successfully fought off felony
strangulation charges brought by his jealous, blond, pre-op transsexual
ex-girlfriend, is now dating another woman wannabe with a far more
serious strangulation on her rap sheet.

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